Republicans and supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are ‘offended’ but ‘not surprised’ after President Joe Biden awarded Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Biden bestowed the medals at a White House ceremony, where the outgoing president thanked Thompson and Cheney for their service to the nation. Both have been discussed as candidates for preemptive pardons.
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“Together, you embody, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the central truth of our great nation,” Biden said. “Our democracy begins and ends with the duties of citizenship. That’s our work for the ages. That’s what all of you, I mean this, all of you embody.”
Republican lawmakers and Trump supporters did
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